Hilda Jesser-Schmid

Hilda Jesser-Schmid (born May 21, 1894 in Marburg an der Drau in Slovenia , † July 22, 1985 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist, textile artist and university teacher.

Life

Jesser studied from 1912 to 1917 at the art school for women and girls and the arts and crafts school of the KK Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna, first as a major under the architect Oskar Strnad and in 1915 under Josef Hoffmann in the architecture program textile and fashion design. Under the direction of Dagobert Peche , she worked in the artist workshops of the Wiener Werkstätte from 1916 to 1922 . She designed work in a variety of media including ceramics , commercial graphics, glass , ivory , lace, embroidery, lamps, leather , metalwork, postcards, toys, and murals. In 1922 she took over a teaching position at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and in 1935 became a full professor. In 1938 she was forced by the National Socialists to break off classes. From 1945 to 1967 she taught again at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, renamed the University of Applied Arts Vienna . Valentin Oman was one of her students. She was a member of the Austrian Werkbund and the Viennese women's art.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1915: fashion exhibition
• 1920: art show
• 1923: Exhibition of works by modern Austrian handicrafts
• 1924: Anniversary exhibition of the Vienna Arts and Crafts Association
• 1925: Paris
• 1927: Exhibition of European Applied Arts, Leipzig
• 1930: "How does the woman see"

literature

• Gerd Pichler: Jesser, Hilde . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 78, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023183-0 , p. 27.
• Jesser-Schmid Hilde. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1497–1498 ( PDF ).

Web links

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